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  • 18
    Jan
    2013
    1:59pm, EST

    Grizzly bear cub ‘Booboo’ escapes in Florida, is recaptured after days on the lam

    NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral
    By Andrew Mach, Staff Writer, NBC News

    A grizzly bear cub, named Booboo, that escaped in Naples, Fla., this week was returned home Friday, its owners confirmed.


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    Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had been looking for the 100-pound, year-old grizzly bear since it was reported missing from the Golden Gate Estates neighborhood around 11 a.m. Tuesday, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office  said.

    According the company’s website and a report in NBC station WBBH in Fort Myers, Fla., the bear is licensed legally to Dexter Osborn, 27, and his company, A Grizzly Experience, which also holds licenses for Tonk, a 6-year-old Alaskan grizzly bear weighing 600 pounds, and Yogi, Booboo’s year-old brother. The company also holds a license for an alligator. 


    When reached by phone, a woman claiming to be Osborn’s wife offered few details other than the cub was “completely home safe.”

    WBBH reported that Dexter Osborn said a state wildlife officer shot the bear with a tranquilizer dart early Friday afternoon.

    On its website, the company bills itself an “entertaining and educational show and exhibit” that travels around the country to give people an opportunity to get close to a real Alaskan grizzly bear.

    The site says Osborn, an animal trainer, has worked around exotic animals, including bears, wild cats and elephants for the past 10 years.

    During the facility's last inspection in March, the Florida Wildlife Commission issued a second "30-day warning" for the lack of a proper perimeter fence for the alligator, WBBH reported. The first warning was issued in October 2011.  

    The FWC report said enclosure the grizzlies were kept in met state standards, WBBH said, and the animals appeared to be healthy and well-fed.

     

    36 comments

    Well, shoot...When I saw the headline and clicked on the link, I thought the article was about "Honey Boo Boo". What a disappointment!

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  • 5
    Nov
    2012
    4:24am, EST

    'Photogenic, well-mannered' grizzly bear kills worker cleaning its enclosure

    By NBC News staff and wire reports

    A 24-year-old man was killed on Sunday by one or more grizzly bears while he cleaned an enclosure at a facility in Montana that provides trained animals for photographers and filmmakers, authorities said.

    The man was attacked and killed at the Animals of Montana facility near Bozeman, Montana, on Sunday by one or both of the captive-bred grizzly bears in the enclosure, the Gallatin County sheriff's office said in a statement.

    Boy falls into Pittsburgh zoo exhibit, mauled to death by African painted dogs

    The sheriff and game wardens were investigating the death. The sheriff declined to release the name of the man who was killed.

    The victim was originally from Pennsylvania, according to KBZK.com.

    The company's website says that it is a "full service wildlife casting agency" which aims to provide "healthy, photogenic, well-mannered predators for the entertainment industry." It has numerous animals, including three grizzly bears.

    Reuters contributed to this report.

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    240 comments

    Wow really a man got killed by a grizzly he got in a cage with.Never saw that coming its a grizzly bear for christ sake must have caught it on a bad day fyi if you come across a cage with a grizzly bear in it stay out of it.

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